Structure of Matthew 6
Does the Lord's Prayer give the structure of Matthew chapter 6?
The Lord's Prayer contains
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Praying to the Triune God
I'm enjoying thinking about the Lord's prayer and the slightly wider context of Matthew 6:7-15 ready for this coming Sunday's services.
In the Lord's prayer we are told who we address (our Father in heaven), then three petitions for matters related to God (his name, his kingdom and his will) and then three petitions related to our own needs.
A clean break from the church and the world
John Stott speaks with his characteristic clarity as he speaks on Matthew 6:1-18:
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Not to be served but to serve
I'd noticed that yesterday and today I was getting a lot of search engine originated hits on this website to a previous sermon I preached on Mark 10:35-45.
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Forgive us our sins
In Matthew 18:21-35, Jesus told a parable to illustrate the principle that we should forgive others. The perspective we need is how much God has forgiven us.
So how big is God's gift of forgiveness to us, then?
The man who was forgiven by the king in verse 24 was in debt to the tune of 10,000 talents.
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The message of Genesis
What's the whole of Genesis about?
Jason Hood, over at the SAET blog, has some very sensible things to say about how the whole book speaks a message that needs to be heard by NT Christians, and what's more speaks it with great clarity:
His full post is not long and is well worth a read: http://www.saet-online.org/why-moses-wrote-genesis/09/
Here's a small extract to whet the appetite and send you to the full thing:
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Access into the presence of God
This Sunday, at Kemsing and Woodlands, we begin a 4-week series looking a single paragraph of the epistle to the Hebrews. We're going to be looking at Hebrews 10:19-25.
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Elimelech
At the wedding I'm taking in Kemsing this afternoon, the bride and groom have asked to have Ruth 1:16-17 as their Bible reading, and for me to speak briefly on that passage. It's the first time I've been asked to speak on Ruth at a wedding, and it is a very appropriate part of the Bible to hear on such an occasion.
On another occasion, I might share what I'll be saying at their wedding.
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What destroyed Sodom?
Waltke again:
Scientifically, the fire and cataclysmic destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah may be explained by an earthquake. Heat, gases, sulphur, and bitumen would have been spewed into the air through the fissures formed during a violent earthquake (14:10). The lightning that frequently accompanies an earthquake would have ignited the gases and bitumen.
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Meet Marcion
I've been re-acquainting myself with the second century heretic, Marcion.
In the Lion Handbook: The History of the Christian Church, there is a very helpful short article by H Dermot McDonald that summarises Marcion and his teaching. (You need the 1990 edition of the Lion Handbook - there is a 2009 edition out which I've never seen, but it seems it is a brand new book so won't have this exact portion in).
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